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    "id": 1193617,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1193617/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Taveta, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Bwire",
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    "content": ". May I, please, request you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, to allow me to make my contribution on this noble and very important legislative proposal. Before I make my presentation, I would like to appreciate and thank our senior colleague, Hon. Stephen Mule, who has today literally moved from one chair to the other encouraging the new Members and assuring them that they will have an opportunity to speak. That is the kind of leadership we want in the House. I want to encourage other senior Members to borrow a leaf from Hon. Mule. On the issue before you, I must say that NG-CDF is a sui generis fund. A special kind of its own. Much has been said by the Members on the importance of the NG-CDF on education and infrastructure in the entire country. Allow me to pose a question to you. How did we get here? Where is the problem? I see the problem in what philosophers call epistemology; the problem of perception. When you look at the fight against the NG-CDF, the issue is not whether or not we should have the NG-CDF, but the problem has always been the perception that the NG-CDF is pocket change for the Members of Parliament. That is why you will find the courts, the media and the civil society fighting the NG-CDF. I was shocked when I saw an article from"
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